<span style='color:gray'>*Stern flicks his power maul 'off'. It's light dies instanly and the humming stops.* "I will lead you, scum. Just aslong as you don't put a bullet in my back. After all, I am the only with the map." *Pulls back the loading arm on his bolt pistol and flips the dust cover back up.* "But I'm surprised you dregs wouldn't want to crawl back under your rocks in the lower hives. Do you know each other?" *Turns to Trent Stramos.* "Mr Stramos, what way do you purpose?"</span>
<i>The after tremors begin to subside and the light bulbs flicker back on. Some still flash haphazardly, as they swing left to right.</i>
<span style='color:red'>"I agree. This will not be the first time the ventilation system has gotten me out of trouble. Stern should lead us, he is better equipped and knows the way."
<span style='color:gray'>"Why does that not suprise me Mr Stramos?" "You know misuse of the hives auxillary systems is an offence punisable by death. Luck for you your criminal records will be erased when we get out of here."</span>
<i>The room is a power generator, cables run through here to the whole hive. You can here the hum of electricity in the metal boxes that are the dynimos that power this sector of the hive. Some cables have been exposed by the earthquake. The room is getting warmer as the air conditioning that kept the eletronics cool have been damaged by the quake. In the celling above you is an air vent.</i>
<span style='color:gray'>"Now let us waste no more time."</span>
<i>Stern pushes a dynimo under the vent. They are 2 metres tall. The same hieght as him. The power armour supplementing his strength enables him to move it with ease. He then shoots out the grille with his pistol. It breaks and shards of metal and bits of shattered fan blades fall to the ground.</i>
<span style='color:gray'>"The fan is out of the way now. We can climb up and out."</span>
<i>Stern climbs onto the dynimo. It is quite a feat in the clumbersom powered armour. He stands on the metal casing and lifts himself into the vent. Pressing his back against the wall of the vent and his feet on the opposite side he moves up the vent by bending his knees, then pushing his legs downwards, keeping his back up against the vents side.</i>
<span style='color:red'>[You follow Stern though the duct. It goes straight up. Climbing in it is hard work. You slip as the hive begins to shake. The shinny metal of the vent offering no purchase to rest on. You fall a few metres your back painfully scraping on the metal of the shaft. But you manage to regain a hold and stop yourself from falling any further.]</span>
<span style='color:yellow'>[Trent Stramos pushes you up into the vent. The hive rumbles but you manage to get into the duct as Trent Stramos falls. You get in easily. Securing yourself in there like Enforcer Stern did. Your back up against the wall and your legs out to keep yourself from falling.]</span>
<u><b>The Generator room</b></u>
<span style='color:blue'>[You push Budtzing into the vent. As your doing so the room shakes again sending you falling onto the floor. The dynimo comes crashing down above you. Luckly your reflexes kick in and you roll away from the heavy generator. It lands where you were lying mere moments ago. Looking up the vent is set three metres up into the celling. There are other generators sitting in the corner of the room.]</span>
<span style='color:yellow'>"Damn, looks like Stern is going to have to move another one of those generators."
*I take out my knife and stab it hard into the side of the vent, to see if will stick hard enough so that I might use it as a handhold to support all my weight.*
"If I can move sufficiently out of the way you can come down past me."</span>
<span style='color:blue'>"Hey guys, got a rope or anything? I've got some small problems down here. I can't seem to jump high enough to a hand."</span>
<span style='color:red'>"The dynamo fell over. Seneca needs a hand. I'm gonna try to pull him up, but I think you're going to have to move another dynamo, Stern." *crawls over to the opening to the generator room*</span>
<i>The vent is only a meter wide. It rises up veticaly. There is no room for a person to pass. You are able to climb it by wedging yourself in and pushing upwards.</i>
<span style='color:gray'>"I am almost at the top. Do you have a rope? Then we could pull him up."</span>
<i>The vent shakes again, but not from a tremor something large has passed over head. The shaking is rhymic and last only for a few seconds then stops.</i>
<b>OOC: John_Sheu has rope on him. He stated it when we began. Please declare what your charater has on him now. To stop them pulling things out of their pockets like a magician.</b>
<b>Epoch666</b>: I thought you said I only had my knife and the pistol. Do I also get my rope, then? In that case, my inventory is: Utility knife Silenced auto-pistol, 12-round clip (3 extra clips) Strangling cord, 10 foot (~3 meters), rated 500 lbs (~225 kg @ 9.8 m/s^-2 gravitational acceleration; the mass of the earth hasn't changed, has it?)
<b>TommyVercetti</b>: I don't think it's me that needs the hand. As I understand it, the vent situation is:
<b>People in vent, in order from top down: <span style='color:GRAY'>Stern</span> <span style='color:RED'>Stramos</span> <span style='color:YELLOW'>Budtzing</span> </b> and trapped below, out of reach of the vent: <b><span style='color:BLUE'>Seneca</span></b>
<span style='color:yellow'><b>"I doubt I'm strong enough to lift him out; I'll get out of the way and let one of you do it." *Stabs knife into side of vent to make a handhold*</b></span>
I intend to hang right at the edge of the vent with my body outside, so that Seneca might be able to get up past me. BTW how wide is the vent, and is it round or rectangular?
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<u><b>The Vent</b></u>
<i>The duct is square. Stern stops climbing the vent.</i>
<span style='color:gray'>"Pass me the rope. I am strong enough to pull him up. The power armour supplements my strength."</span>
<b><span style='color:yellow'>[You manage to push your knife through the thin steel of the vent and hang from it.]</span></b>
<span style='color:blue'>[You feel a warm current of air pass over you.]</span>
OCC: Give me 3 bottles of vodka, please. Maybe some rags to plug them. Maybe a grappling hook if that is not overpowered that this point. To jon: Oh yea, you don't need a hand... reading this at around 1AM is confusing. *edited*
[color=blue]"What the...That's weird, there's no air conditioning here. Hey Stern, know where a warm current of air could come from by any chance?" OOC: Pls answer my question, am I allowed a hammer and nails as I am a smith?
Well, there's no rope as of yet, I haven't taken it out <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<span style='color:yellow'>*I take out my cord, lock a handle at the bottom for Seneca to hold on to, and pass the other end to Stramos.* "Here, pass it up. Seneca, get a hold on!"</span>
<b>OCC: TommyVercetti: you can have 3 bottles of vodka and a cloth to make rags. But no grappling hooks. They can be brought or found a little later. Nathanael (UK): I added them to your list but didn't notify you sorry. You can have one hammer and a pack of 100 nails.</b>
<u><b>The Vent</b></u>
<span style='color:gray'>"The air current comes from above. My maps shows their used by the mag-lift trains."</span>
<span style='color:blue'>[A rope dangles down from the vent above. It sways infront of you. It can be reached at a streach.]</span>
<span style='color:red'>[Budtzing hands you a cord to pass to Stern.]</span>
<span style='color:yellow'>"Hurry up, I can hang here as long as need be, but it ain't very comfortable. You're all gonna have to shift up to leave me a space when Seneca gets in." </span>
<i>Stern takes the rope and braces himself against the steel walls of the shaft. Then he pulls the rope, sliding it through his hands. The servo-motors in his arm whine as they pull on the cord.</i>
<span style='color:blue'>[Slowly you are lifted up, past Budtzing and into the vent. The generator room dissapears and replaced by the cold metal of the ventallation shaft. You are now in.]</span>
<span style='color:yellow'>[Trent Stamos is pulled up past you into the vent.]</span>
<span style='color:blue'>*Takes out a nail and hammers it into the wall, he tests it to see if it'll hold his weight and hammers in two per leg (4 in total)* "There, that should enable us to move a bit quicker*</span>
<i>The vent goes up several more metres then opens up into a large tunnel. Stern reaches the peak of the shaft then crawls into the concrete tunnel. The shaft emerges in the wall on the tunnel. The tunnel is one of many that the mag-lift train use, connecting the middle hive together like an underground system. It has a single metal track running down the middle that buzzes with electricity. The large tunnels run for miles in a circle around the mid-hive. They are poorly lit with neon lights that run down the middle of the celling. It is difficult to see in front of you.</i>
<span style='color:gray'>"I'm out."</span>
<span style='color:red'>[You see Enforcer Stern climb out of the vent. There is a pale light coming from above. You are almost out of the vent]</span>
<span style='color:blue'>[The nails make good footholds to push yourself up on. Looking up Stern appears to be out of the vent. You hear his voice echo down the shaft comfirming that he is out.]</span>
<span style='color:yellow'>[Seneca has hammered nails into the vent. Using them as foothols makes the journey easier.]</span>
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"I will lead you, scum. Just aslong as you don't put a bullet in my back. After all, I am the only with the map."
*Pulls back the loading arm on his bolt pistol and flips the dust cover back up.*
"But I'm surprised you dregs wouldn't want to crawl back under your rocks in the lower hives. Do you know each other?"
*Turns to Trent Stramos.*
"Mr Stramos, what way do you purpose?"</span>
<i>The after tremors begin to subside and the light bulbs flicker back on. Some still flash haphazardly, as they swing left to right.</i>
*looks around anxiously, eager to move*</span>
"You know misuse of the hives auxillary systems is an offence punisable by death. Luck for you your criminal records will be erased when we get out of here."</span>
<i>The room is a power generator, cables run through here to the whole hive. You can here the hum of electricity in the metal boxes that are the dynimos that power this sector of the hive. Some cables have been exposed by the earthquake. The room is getting warmer as the air conditioning that kept the eletronics cool have been damaged by the quake. In the celling above you is an air vent.</i>
<span style='color:gray'>"Now let us waste no more time."</span>
<i>Stern pushes a dynimo under the vent. They are 2 metres tall. The same hieght as him. The power armour supplementing his strength enables him to move it with ease. He then shoots out the grille with his pistol.
It breaks and shards of metal and bits of shattered fan blades fall to the ground.</i>
<span style='color:gray'>"The fan is out of the way now. We can climb up and out."</span>
<i>Stern climbs onto the dynimo. It is quite a feat in the clumbersom powered armour. He stands on the metal casing and lifts himself into the vent. Pressing his back against the wall of the vent and his feet on the opposite side he moves up the vent by bending his knees, then pushing his legs downwards, keeping his back up against the vents side.</i>
"Come on guys, hurry up! People always said I had strong lungs."
</span>
"Thanks."
*moves down to make room for Budtzing* </span>
<span style='color:red'>[You follow Stern though the duct. It goes straight up. Climbing in it is hard work. You slip as the hive begins to shake. The shinny metal of the vent offering no purchase to rest on. You fall a few metres your back painfully scraping on the metal of the shaft. But you manage to regain a hold and stop yourself from falling any further.]</span>
<span style='color:yellow'>[Trent Stramos pushes you up into the vent. The hive rumbles but you manage to get into the duct as Trent Stramos falls. You get in easily. Securing yourself in there like Enforcer Stern did. Your back up against the wall and your legs out to keep yourself from falling.]</span>
<u><b>The Generator room</b></u>
<span style='color:blue'>[You push Budtzing into the vent. As your doing so the room shakes again sending you falling onto the floor. The dynimo comes crashing down above you. Luckly your reflexes kick in and you roll away from the heavy generator. It lands where you were lying mere moments ago. Looking up the vent is set three metres up into the celling. There are other generators sitting in the corner of the room.]</span>
*I take out my knife and stab it hard into the side of the vent, to see if will stick hard enough so that I might use it as a handhold to support all my weight.*
"If I can move sufficiently out of the way you can come down past me."</span>
<span style='color:gray'>"What seems to be the hold up?"</span>
*crawls over to the opening to the generator room*</span>
<i>The vent is only a meter wide. It rises up veticaly. There is no room for a person to pass. You are able to climb it by wedging yourself in and pushing upwards.</i>
<span style='color:gray'>"I am almost at the top. Do you have a rope? Then we could pull him up."</span>
<i>The vent shakes again, but not from a tremor something large has passed over head. The shaking is rhymic and last only for a few seconds then stops.</i>
Please declare what your charater has on him now. To stop them pulling things out of their pockets like a magician.</b>
Utility knife
Silenced auto-pistol, 12-round clip (3 extra clips)
Strangling cord, 10 foot (~3 meters), rated 500 lbs (~225 kg @ 9.8 m/s^-2 gravitational acceleration; the mass of the earth hasn't changed, has it?)
<b>TommyVercetti</b>: I don't think it's me that needs the hand. As I understand it, the vent situation is:
<b>People in vent, in order from top down:
<span style='color:GRAY'>Stern</span>
<span style='color:RED'>Stramos</span>
<span style='color:YELLOW'>Budtzing</span>
</b> and trapped below, out of reach of the vent:
<b><span style='color:BLUE'>Seneca</span></b>
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<span style='color:blue'>Nathanael (UK)
-Palm daggers
-Auto Rifle
-Bolt Pistol</span>
<span style='color:yellow'>John_Sheu
-Silenced auto-pistol
-utility knife</span>
<span style='color:red'>TommyVercetti
-Bowie Knife
-Bolter
-Plasma Pistol</span><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Please delcare what your charater has on you now, so I can update this list.
*Stabs knife into side of vent to make a handhold*</b></span>
I intend to hang right at the edge of the vent with my body outside, so that Seneca might be able to get up past me. BTW how wide is the vent, and is it round or rectangular?
OOC: Can I have a hammer and some nails?
<u><b>The Vent</b></u>
<i>The duct is square.
Stern stops climbing the vent.</i>
<span style='color:gray'>"Pass me the rope. I am strong enough to pull him up. The power armour supplements my strength."</span>
<b><span style='color:yellow'>[You manage to push your knife through the thin steel of the vent and hang from it.]</span></b>
<span style='color:blue'>[You feel a warm current of air pass over you.]</span>
Maybe a grappling hook if that is not overpowered that this point.
To jon: Oh yea, you don't need a hand... reading this at around 1AM is confusing. *edited*
OOC: Pls answer my question, am I allowed a hammer and nails as I am a smith?
<span style='color:yellow'>*I take out my cord, lock a handle at the bottom for Seneca to hold on to, and pass the other end to Stramos.*
"Here, pass it up. Seneca, get a hold on!"</span>
TommyVercetti: you can have 3 bottles of vodka and a cloth to make rags. But no grappling hooks. They can be brought or found a little later.
Nathanael (UK): I added them to your list but didn't notify you sorry. You can have one hammer and a pack of 100 nails.</b>
<u><b>The Vent</b></u>
<span style='color:gray'>"The air current comes from above. My maps shows their used by the mag-lift trains."</span>
<span style='color:blue'>[A rope dangles down from the vent above. It sways infront of you. It can be reached at a streach.]</span>
<span style='color:red'>[Budtzing hands you a cord to pass to Stern.]</span>
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>Edit-What colours...</span>
</span>
OOC: Thanx Epoch
<i>Stern takes the rope and braces himself against the steel walls of the shaft. Then he pulls the rope, sliding it through his hands. The servo-motors in his arm whine as they pull on the cord.</i>
<span style='color:blue'>[Slowly you are lifted up, past Budtzing and into the vent. The generator room dissapears and replaced by the cold metal of the ventallation shaft. You are now in.]</span>
<span style='color:yellow'>[Trent Stamos is pulled up past you into the vent.]</span>
*I pull myself up on the knife and start to draw myself back into the vent"
</span>
<i>The vent goes up several more metres then opens up into a large tunnel. Stern reaches the peak of the shaft then crawls into the concrete tunnel. The shaft emerges in the wall on the tunnel.
The tunnel is one of many that the mag-lift train use, connecting the middle hive together like an underground system. It has a single metal track running down the middle that buzzes with electricity.
The large tunnels run for miles in a circle around the mid-hive. They are poorly lit with neon lights that run down the middle of the celling. It is difficult to see in front of you.</i>
<span style='color:gray'>"I'm out."</span>
<span style='color:red'>[You see Enforcer Stern climb out of the vent. There is a pale light coming from above. You are almost out of the vent]</span>
<span style='color:blue'>[The nails make good footholds to push yourself up on. Looking up Stern appears to be out of the vent. You hear his voice echo down the shaft comfirming that he is out.]</span>
<span style='color:yellow'>[Seneca has hammered nails into the vent. Using them as foothols makes the journey easier.]</span>